On this day, it is traditional for people to take an oil bath in the morning, wear new clothes, exchange gifts, performing Poosai ( Pūjā ), and a visit to the Koil ( Hindu Temple ) is normal.

* Maya, an alternative transliteration of Al Maya, a town in Libya

A common alternative Māori name for Saturday is the transliteration Hatarei.

Appian in the beginning of his Punic Wars claims that Carthage was founded by a certain Zorus and Carchedon, but Zorus looks like an alternative transliteration of the city name Tyre and Carchedon is just the Greek form of Carthage.

Nicholas Roerich, ( October 9, 1874 – December 13, 1947 ) also known as Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh ( alternative transliteration ) (), was a Russian painter and philosopher.

The following are the major alternative transliteration methods for Devanāgarī:

Tsargrad ( Old Church Slavonic: Цѣсарьградъ ; Church Slavonic ; Царьгра ̀ дъ, ; Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Serbian and Slovene: Carigrad or Цариград, depending on their alphabets ( or Tsarigrad as an alternative Latin transliteration of Cyrillic ); ; ; ; also rendered as Czargrad and Tzargrad ; see Tsar ) is a Slavic name for the city of Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, commonly known as the " Byzantine Empire ".

This is the name that was originally announced in 2003 ; however, the IAU Working Group on Planetary System Nomenclature ( WGPSN ) decided in early 2005 to use an alternative transliteration of the Norse spelling.

* An alternative transliteration of the Hebrew name of the Biblical figure Abel

Where different keyboard layouts or character encodings map different scripts to the same key positions or code points, directly converting matching characters provides an alternative to transliteration when the appearance, rather than the meaning, is desired.

Kha is also an alternative transliteration of the letter خ in the Arabic alphabet.

* Salang, an alternative transliteration of Halang, a language spoken in Laos and Vietnam

It is also known by its Egyptian dialectal transliteration, Awlad Haretna, formal Arabic transliteration, Awlaadu Haaratena and by the alternative translated transliteral Arabic title of " Children of Our Alley ".

The name Waodani ( or the alternative English spelling Waorani ) represents a transliteration by English-speaking missionary linguists.

Farouk al-Kaddoumi ( alternative transliteration, Faruq al-Qaddumi ) (), also known as Abu al-Lutf, born in 1931.

Gangkhar Puensum, alternative transliteration Gangkar Punsum or Gankar Punzum ( meaning 3 mountain siblings "), had its altitude first measured in 1922 but, until recent years, maps of the region were not at all accurate and the mountain had been shown in different locations and with markedly different heights.

* An alternative name of Kentro in Greece and in modern transliteration of Greek meaning centre

* Kearney ( disambiguation ), alternative transliteration from Irish

* Vijaya ( disambiguation ), alternative transliteration or female equivalent of Vijay

... aka Maseer, El ( alternative transliteration )

Nakhon Si Thammarat (,, alternative English transliteration: Nakhon Sri Thammarat from Pali Nagara Sri Dhammaraja ) is a town in southern Thailand, capital of the Nakhon Si Thammarat Province and the Nakhon Si Thammarat district.

* An alternative transliteration of Dhol, an Indian drum.

Since the transliteration of Bulgarian is problematic, the official Bulgarian transliteration is used, which can be checked at Transliteration of proper names in Bulgaria, followed within parenthesizes by the Bulgarian name and, after a semicolon, ( for searchability ) alternative transliterations.

* Mark is the only canonical gospel with significant various alternative endings ( see Mark 16, Possible Scenarios ); however, most of the contents of the traditional " Longer Ending " () are found in other New Testament texts and are not unique to Mark, see Mark 16 # The Longer Ending.

Pamplona () or Iruña (, alternative spelling: Iruñea, ) is the historical capital city of Navarre, in Spain, and of the former Kingdom of Navarre.

The α-amylases () ( CAS # 9014-71-5 ) ( alternative names: 1, 4-α -- glucan glucanohydrolase ; glycogenase ) are calcium metalloenzymes, completely unable to function in the absence of calcium.

Asafoetida ( Ferula assafoetida ), alternative spelling asafetida, () ( also known as devil's dung, stinking gum, asant, food of the gods, giant fennel, Jowani badian, hing and ting ) is the dried latex ( gum oleoresin ) exuded from the living underground rhizome or tap root of several species of Ferula, which is a perennial herb ( 1 to 1. 5 m high ).

Digable Planets () is an American alternative hip hop trio based in New York City, composed of Ishmael " Butterfly " Butler ( from Seattle ), Mary Ann " Ladybug Mecca " Vieira ( from Silver Spring ) and Craig " Doodlebug " Irving ( from Philadelphia ).

" Ana Ng " () is a song by alternative rock band They Might Be Giants.

Yenching () is an alternative name of Beijing ( Peking )-derived from its status as capital of Yan state, one of the seven Warring States from 5th century BC to 3rd century BC.

Humanistic Judaism () () is a movement in Judaism that offers a nontheistic alternative in contemporary Jewish life.

Edison Vasilievich Denisov () ( April 6, 1929, Tomsk, Russia — November 24, 1996, Paris, France ) was a Russian composer of so-called " Underground " — " Anti-Collectivist ", " alternative " or " nonconformist " division in the Soviet music.

The 3rd Belorussian Front () ( alternative spellings are 3rd Byelorussian Front and 3rd Belarusian Front ) was a Front of the Red Army during the Second World War.

Civaka Cintamani means " fabulous gem ", is also known by alternative name Manannul () or " Book of Marriages ".

Solutia Inc. () is a global manufacturer of performance materials and specialty chemicals including polyvinyl butyral ( PVB ), ethylene vinyl acetate ( EVA ), and thermoplastic polyurethane ( TPU ) interlayers for laminated glass, aftermarket window films, protective barrier and conductive films, and rubber processing chemicals, used in architectural, automotive, alternative energy, electronic devices, consumer and industrial applications.

Then is rejected and the alternative hypothesis () is considered to be proven as correct.

* 2002: Introduced federated server model for remote geographic team support ( an alternative to replication ) capability built into MKS Integrity ()

" Ukrain " () is an alternative medicine promoted to treat cancer based on chelidonium.

His alternative names include Emishi () and Toyora no Ooomi ().

The fairs () are also an alternative for the workers that did not find space in the economy of the Federal District.

According to another theory propounded by Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi, Takṣaśilā is related to Takṣaka, Sanskrit for " carpenter ", and is an alternative name for the Nāgas of ancient India.

From the Sanskrit word Nirvikalpa, meaning " not admitting an alternative ".

The Sanskrit name literally " king of knowledge ", thus the Chinese character " 明 ", meaning knowledgeable ( and / or bright ) is used, leading to wide array of alternative English names including Radiant King, among others like Guardian King, etc.

The case of Maharaja (" Great Raja ", great King and Prince, in Sanskrit and Hindi ) on the Indian subcontinent, originally reserved for the regional hegemon such as the Gupta, is a striking example how such a lofty style of this or an alternative model can get caught in a cycle of devalution by " title inflation " as ever more, mostly less powerful, rulers adopt the style.

Bhujimol ( alternative name: Bhujinmol ) has been used to write Nepal Bhasa and Sanskrit.

The alternative spellings are due to differing Romanizations of the Sanskrit word.

Nirvikalpa is a Sanskrit adjective with the general sense of " not admitting an alternative ", formed by applying the contra-existential prepositional prefix (" away, without, not ") to the term (" alternative, variant thought or conception ").

Standard translations of the term from Sanskrit are as a goose first, and swans, other aquatic birds, or mythical birds as an alternative.